SPOBTS
Playing with pain
Now that NU's quarterbacks have survived their
injuries, the Huskers have three men capable of
running the offense. PAGE 9
Ui
A family film
“The Farmer’s Wife,’’ a three-part documentary
focusing on the struggles of a Lawrence family,
debuts Monday on NETV. PAGE 12
FRIDAY
September 18, 1998
Sunny Delight
Mostly sunny, high 87. Clear tonight, low 63.
VOL. 98 COVERING THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN SINCE 1901 NO. 20
Dawn Dietrich/DN
CHEE-PENG TAN, a UNL international student from Malaysia, works 15 to 20 hours a week at the Goodyear Tire and
Rubber Co. Tan, a senior mechanical engineering major, woiks as a development and design intern at the plant. UNL
helps Asian students obtain jobs so they can pay for their education while the economic crisis at home continues
to cause financial struggles.
Fewer .Asians return to UNL
■ World markets cause
money concerns among
international students.
By Jessica Fargen
Staff writer
The Asian currency crisis that
affected about 400 UNL students
last semester is probably responsi
ble for 39 fewer students from
Malaysia, Indonesia, Korea, the
Philippines and Thailand attending
UNL this fall, administrators and
students said.
They said the decrease is not
because UNL’s SI50,000 in aid did
not help but because the crisis has
not subsided.
Peter Levitov, associate dean of
International Affairs, said the num
ber of students did not decline sig
nificantly, except for Malaysian
students.
UNL has 31 fewer Malaysian
students than it did last fall.
Chee-Peng Tan, president of the
Malaysian Students Association,
said the Malaysian government is
trying to keep more students in the
country, which means fewer are
attending American universities.
Levitov said the four other
countries probably remained fairly
constant because Asian families are
making sacrifices to put their chil
dren through school and because of
UNL’s generosity and welcoming
environment.
UNL’s relief came in the form of
$90,000 in grants and $60,000 in
student loans in February; financial
aid for off-campus work permits;
and a two-month bill deferment for
last spring. Students eligible had to
be at the university before June 10.
No such aid is being offered to
students this semester.
Flowever, this semester, about
75 students have received a special
permit to work more than 20 hours
on campus. Part of the S70 for a
Please see ASIA on 6
Students herald
ASUN’s annual
migration game
By Darren Ivy
Staff writer
UNL senior Andy Wane has made
a yearly tradition of attending the
ASUN-sponsored migration to an
away Nebraska football game.
Wane, a senior secondary educa
tion major, migrated to Boulder,
Colo., in 1995; Manhattan, Kan., in
1996; and Lawrence, Kan., last year
for Comhusker football games.
And he plans to go the Arrowhead
Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., this
year for the Oct. 3 Nebraska
Oklahoma State game.
He turned in his application
Monday for one of the 1,000 available
tickets.
students wno naven t turned in
their applications yet and still want to
go have until 6 tonight to turn them in
to the ticket office in the Stadium
Drive Parking Garage, said Athletic
Department Ticket Manager John
Anderson.
Tickets are $22.50 for students.
As of Thursday evening, 500
applications had been turned in,
Anderson said. If the number of
applications exceeded 1,000, there
would be a lottery' Sept. 23 to deter
mine who receives tickets.
"Anybody who asks for a ticket
should get one,” Anderson said.
The offer was organized by the
Association of Students of the
University of Nebraska in conjunc
tion with the Athletic Department,
ASUN President Sara Russell said
Each year, ASUN organizes a trip
to an away game for students.
Last year's game against KU did
n’t draw the kind of attendance
«
Arrowhead has a
pretty big parking
lot, so it should be a
big party ”
Andy Wane
UNL senior
ASUN members had hoped for, so
they were looking for a better game
this year.
The decision about which game to
designate as a migration game came
down to those against Oklahoma
State and Kansas State, Russell said.
After much debate last year,
ASUN members decided to choose
the NU-OSU game because it was in
Kansas City’s Arrowhead Stadium,
and more tickets would be available
for students, Russell said.
Anderson said he supported
ASUN’s decision.
“If you’re going to migrate some
where, there’s not a much better
place,” Anderson said.
Wane said he likes the student
migration game better than other
away games because there are more
UNL students around.
He said having more Nebraska
students makes the pre-game activi
ties - such as tailgate parties - more
fun than the others. He also said
Arrowhead Stadium will provide an
exciting atmosphere.
“Arrowhead has a pretty big park
ing lot,” Wane said, “ so it should be a
big party.”
Off-campus groups debate lid’s traits
Editor s note: This week the Daily Nebraskan
examines the possible effects of Initiative 413,
the proposed amendment for controlling state
taxes, as well as what opponents and proponents
are doing.
By Brian Carlson
Staff writer
To cap or not to cap: that is the question
Nebraska voters will face on Nov. 3 when they
decide the fate of Initiative 413.
The initiative, spearheaded by a group of
Nebraska business leaders and approved for the
ballot following a successful summer petition
campaign, would place a constitutional limit on
the growth of state spending and taxation.
Worried that the spending restrictions could
force higher tuition or cuts in faculty or depart
ments, most groups associated with the
University of Nebraska are decidedly against the
amendment.
But off campus, the debate rages between
those concerned about the amendment's impact
on public services and property tax relief, and the
no-less-passionate advocates of tax relief.
Frustrated with taxation and government
spending they say have run amok, business lead
ers and other supporters are calling on state gov
ernment to exercise greater spending discipline.
Initiative 413 would limit the growth of state
and local revenue available for spending each
year to the rate of inflation plus population
growth.
Exceptions could be made for unfunded fed
eral mandates or emergency situations, or a vote
of the people could authorize a lid override.
Steven Wolf, executive director of Citizens
for Nebraska’s Future, a proponent group, said
the initiative’s provisions are airtight.
“If you're taking in every dime you're getting
now, and you're getting an annual increase, what
harm can be done?” he said.
But Craig Christiansen, director of
Nebraskans for the Good Life, an opponent
group, disagreed. He said the amendment would
ultimately mean fewer resources for public ser
vices and education, and would effectively end
property tax relief efforts.
“When you actually look at the facts, it trans
lates into real cuts in the quality of life for
Nebraskans,” he said.
The amendment is nearly 3,500 words long,
and if passed it would account for 11 percent of
the state's constitution. Its complexity, coupled
with the emotional nature of the debate, has cre
ated widely diverging opinions about its poten
tial effects on Nebraska.
Shaking tax burdens
Wolf said the initiative was a sensible way to
force state and local governments to be more fis
cally responsible and return budget surpluses to
taxpayers.
Under the proposed amendment, state budget
surpluses would be returned to taxpayers through
sales and income tax cuts, while local surpluses
would be returned through property tax cuts.
Wolf said those provisions would mean all
taxpayers would share in tax relief. And no cuts
would be made, he said - only limits on spending
growth.
“If this doesn't pass. 1 can just about assure
Please see LID on 7
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